The Code of Hammurabi King of Babylon
London: University of Chicago Press/Callaghan and Company, 1904. Second Edition. hardcover. 8vo 189pp + CIII (103) illustrated plates. Second edition. the legal code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon. The longest, best organized and best preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. This edition includes a transliteration of the text with translation on facing page, a photograph of the original stele and then plates of the original text in Akkadian. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, bookplate on spine faded and rubbed, mild toning/foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight. / no DJ. Item #1519
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